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For kids who have run away from or been forced out of their family home, fallen through the cracks of the foster care system, or aged out of foster care, Covenant House provides a temporary home and a trusted community of friends and mentors.
Founded in 1972, Covenant House has reached more than one million young people with immediate assistance and the support necessary to transition from a life on the streets to a life with a future.
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MAil from the boarder of Casa Alianza Kinderhilfe Guatemala e.V.
Casa Alianza still gonna exist and work for the rights of children
Saturday, July 4st 2009
The board of Casa Alianza - Kinderhilfe Guatemala e.V. decided to continue the work in Guatemala with Leonel Dubon (former leader of the drugrehabilitation of Casa Alianza) and Claudia Rivera (former leader of Casa Alianza in Guatemala).
The former employees of Casa Alianza continue their work in a new founded organisation to close the gap that resultet from the closing of Casa Alianza.
It's hard work ahead of us. With your help we gonna manage it!
In the end of August we'll send out more information.
Thanks for all the support during the last months!
For the boarder
Franz Hucklenbruch
Sorry to tell that there're still nothing new to tell you. Gonna phone the German office next weekend and hopefully they got in touch with Guatemala and New York by than and got some answers...
Unfortuanetly I still have no concret news about the situation. The German office still works to sort all details and information. They promised to send me an update ass soon they got further information.
A little update from Germany...
They're getting a lot of mails and phonecalls at the office in Germany, and gonna come back with more information as soon as possible.
Several German newspapers reported about the situation but still...
Right now there 90 children living in the Casa Alainzas projects who are affected by the close down.
Casa Alianza Guatemala affected by the financial crisis
Casa Alianza Guatemala closed after 28 years – children left without hope for the future.
Casa Alianza is an organisation that has been working with rehabilitation of street children in Guatemala in its entirety. From directly contact and help on the street where the children are victims for violence and murder, to home- and rehabilitation projects to school and education.
Now the bank- and financial crisis has reached Casa Alianza. We feared that the crisis will give us fewer supporting activities and donations. It became worse then we ever thought it could become.
Covenant House (the mother organisation of Casa Alianza with the main office in New York) has lost values because of the property crisis in the USA. Houses and other properties have lost great values.
In addition to that several of the big contributors (among them banks and Broker at Wall Street) have stopped their contributions.
As a result of this Covenant House doesn't provide the money for the Casa Alianza in Guatemala any longer.
Since 80% of the money came from Covenant House Casa Alianza in Guatemala was closed last Friday, January 16th after 28 years.
All programmes were shut down, all employees were dismissed.
The children and teenagers living in the projects are supposed to get relocated with their families which they escaped from for good reasons.
Or they will be moved to public institutions which don't deserve this title.
Only a few will be able to move into other smaller organisations.
We don't know if there will be a restart in half a year or two years from now.
I've been supporting the association Casa Alianza Kinderhilfe Guatemala e.V. in Germany. The German association has financed projects for street children and former street children in Guatemala for many years.
Together with other organisations in Germany we are looking for possibilities to start alternative projects and to help the children and teenagers.
We won't get help from the state since we aren't a "bank in a crisis".
There are discussions about to start a co-operation with Casa Alianza Honduras and to start a replacement program for Guatemala. But we still don't know if Honduras won't be affected by the bank crisis.
There have been many e-mails and phone calls with Guatemala and New York, but we still don't have the whole picture yet.
We will provide more information as we get it.
During many years pupils, communities, private persons, some since 199, have collected money through many different activities. This money has been send from Germany to Guatemala to be used to finance help for the children.
There are many who are shocked about the fact that the children are loosing their subsistence.
I hope we'll find a way together to help the children who are affected by this crisis. We thank you for all help.
Please tell your friends about this and give your contribution!
On behave of Casa Alianza
Anny Langer
You can donate to the Casa Alianza in Germany by using the information below.
Casa Alianza Kinderhilfe Guatemala e.V.
Luisenstrasse 13
D- 530604 Bad Honnef
Germany
Stadtsparkasse Bad Honnef
BLZ 380 512 90
Int.Bank Account Number :
DE80 3805 1290 0000 137000
SWIFT-BIC : WELADED1HON
A lot of information has been published at the new webside:
http://www.casa-alianza.de/
Etter den dårlige nyheten om nedleggelsen av Casa Alianza i Guatemala fra januar 2009 er endelig noen gode nyheter: It goes on!
Våren 2009 antydet det på allerede, som truer muligheten for å fortsette arbeidet. Samtidig er vårt prosjekt går igjen i Guatemala. Casa Alianza-Guatemala Children's Aid Association fortsetter å fungere i fremtiden med to partner organisasjoner i Guatemala. Begge drives av tidligere ansatte hos Casa Alianza har bare weitergemacht etter nedleggelsen av programmene i januar 2009.
Det er Gaudium Paidos (www.gaudium-paidos.org) og "Refugio de la Ninez. Begge organisasjonene er anerkjent forening lov i Guatemala.
Gaudium Paidos ble grunnlagt i 2007 i Barcelona, Spania og jobbet i Burma og Guatemala til barn, spesielt i det medisinske feltet. Målgruppe er barn (men også voksne) som ikke har tilgang til medisinsk behandling, f.eks Garbage søker på derMüllhalde i Guatemala City. Hjemmesiden til Gaudium Paidos gjør dette arbeidet er kort. I Guatemala, organisasjonen siden 2007 har jobbet med Casa Alianza. Så det var tydelig at forent krefter involvert tidligere ansatte på Casa Alianza, med Gaudium Paidos å fylle tomrommet etterlatt av forsvinningen av Casa Alianza. Blant andre ting, er Claudia Rivera, som hadde vært i de senere årene, direktør ved Casa Alianza. Programmet består av Gaudium Paidos
- Streetwork (sosialarbeidere opprettholde kontakten med barn på gaten)
- Risikoreduksjon i slum (opplæring om hygiene, narkotika trussel og vold)
- Medisinsk omsorg (legeundersøkelse i urolige nabolag og dosering av medisin)
- Gjensidig (annonser) mot menneskerettighetsbrudd
Refugio de la Ninez ble grunnlagt av Asdrubal Leonel Dubon-Bendfeldt, som tidligere hadde ledet stoffet rehabilitering av Casa Alianza. Psykologen har skapt sammen med andre tidligere ansatte i et boligområde program for jenter som var svært sårbar. I begynnelsen av september var 21 jenter, noen med spedbarn i programmet. Det er behov for mer plass ...
Derfor, selv om bare en del av programmet til den tidligere Casa Alianza gjennomført, men starten har vært gjort og utvidelsen kan følges nå. Hovedmålet er utdanning: som ikke kan lese eller skrive, kan også lære et yrke som mater ham. Derfor mulighetene er ennå ikke skapt først.
Utgangen av juli har vi gitt den tidligere frosne ved donasjoner fra året 2008 og de to organisasjonene per 30 000. € overføres. Organisasjonene bruke de to bygningene som tilhører Children's Aid. For framtidige arbeid på en bredere basis kan gjøres, er vi med andre hjelpeorganisasjoner i Tyskland i kontakt.
Avgjørende men din vilje og din støtte for at vi nå har er virkelig forbauset. I stedet for å stoppe etter nedleggelsen av Casa Alianza i Guatemala en gang stående ordre eller å trekke direkte belastning (som er innlysende) ville mange av dere og dere gjør det motsatte og deres bidrag øker ! Og mange er allerede på vingene for å begynne sin virksomhet for Christmas perioden. Dette var en fantastisk opplevelse for oss, og oppmuntring.
Takk for det!
Bad Honnef, september 2009